Someone send me money to build more crunchers, or give me one of theirs.

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There are two different points systems, it's as confusing as hell but here's the summary:
The WCG website uses it's own points, each point there is worth 1/7 of a point as reported by BOINCStats, Free-DC, or the BOINC manager. These are known as WCG points. The points that BOINC reports are known as BOINC points. The milestones here are BOINC milestones

Yeah... there's two types of points for this... there's the WCG points, points that are credited by the WCG project itself, and BOINC points, points that are credited by the people who run BOINC, the software that host the WCG projects, and many others too. We go by BOINC points here; WCG points can be converted (roughly) into BOINC points by dividing by 7.

This could take some time, and some of my wise wit, but I may be able to convince my aunt to run WCG on her machine (sporting my old 7750BE, heh). I am very worried about her electrical system. Before I got to it, she had a computer, monitor (CRT tube type), speakers, printer, cable modem, tv, tv cable box, and dvd player all running off a light extension cord (a power tap with the ground prong pulled off was employed) like the type seen below:

Since I was charged with building a new computer, I noticed this mess and was horrified, and I had her get a better extension cord. Now she has a heavy duty extension cord (unfortunately, some raggidy old dirty chewed up thing that was used outside, and has the ground pin missing) going to the power tap (again, ground pin missing...) supporting the pc, monitor (now a lcd), speakers, printer, and tv. The other extension cord is powering the modem, router (got one to set up a network) and the dvd player.

My plan is to have her get a decent extension cord like the one she has now, but, new, not chewed up and with the ground pin, and get a surge protector with >=9 outlets. After that's all done, which will probably take a while, I'll try to talk to her into running WCG again.

This could take some time, and some of my wise wit, but I may be able to convince my aunt to run WCG on her machine (sporting my old 7750BE, heh). I am very worried about her electrical system. Before I got to it, she had a computer, monitor (CRT tube type), speakers, printer, cable modem, tv, tv cable box, and dvd player all running off a light extension cord (a power tap with the ground prong pulled off was employed) like the type seen below:

Since I was charged with building a new computer, I noticed this mess and was horrified, and I had her get a better extension cord. Now she has a heavy duty extension cord (unfortunately, some raggidy old dirty chewed up thing that was used outside, and has the ground pin missing) going to the power tap (again, ground pin missing...) supporting the pc, monitor (now a lcd), speakers, printer, and tv. The other extension cord is powering the modem, router (got one to set up a network) and the dvd player.

My plan is to have her get a decent extension cord like the one she has now, but, new, not chewed up and with the ground pin, and get a surge protector with >=9 outlets. After that's all done, which will probably take a while, I'll try to talk to her into running WCG again.

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EEK! I run my laptop on an extension cord like that, but I run my desktop on a heavy-duty cord.